The Newswire : The Memnosyne Institute, and Gua Africa for the Sudanese refugees →

When Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier turned international hip-hop star and peace activist through his founding of Gua Africa, a London based non-profit which provides educational programs for those affected by war and displacement in East Africa offering education to refugees who have survived war and genocide learned about the urgent need to assist Sudanese refugees to flee to South Sudan and Kenya, he immediately began working to connect with others around the globe to help him. Emmanuel Jal, Mary Ann and Joshua had originally committed to intending to bring the first African location of The Memnosyne Institute’s “School Out of A Box” prototype, (the first is in the Yucatan) providing a space for students to pursue online high school and college education via online education, to be located next to where he had built a library for recovering child soldiers.

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CBC Canada : From child soldier to entrepreneur: new cafe latest peace project for Emmanuel Jal →

Emmanuel Jal wants to start a revolution — and he's opened a cafe in Moss Park where it can begin.

Named Jal Gua, which means "walk in peace" in the Naath language of East Africa, the cafe is the latest project in the former child soldier's quest to create the life that was stolen from him as a boy.

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